Margaret Renkl: Great fiction is a lie that teaches us the truth.
. An online author event is a thousand times better than no opportunity at all to hear writers talk about their new books. Online events are also very democratic, available to people who live nowhere near a bookstore or a book festival, or whose health doesn’t permit public outings. For the rest of my life, I will be grateful to booksellers and festival organizers for finding so many ways to bring writers to us during a time when we were all stuck inside.
To be read to is a form of holiness. A hush falls over the chattering, rustling crowd. Everyone grows still, giving themselves over to the spell that carefully chosen words can cast. It’s a little like being a child, settling on the classroom rug and waiting for your teacher to read the next chapter of an absorbing story.
I’ve been to book festivals as a writer, but I’m not traveling with a new book this year, so I will be back at the, my hometown festival, mainly as a reader. This book festival and I got to Nashville at nearly the same time — I in 1987, the festival in 1989 — and it is no exaggeration to say that it has been a crucial part of my entire adult life.
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